June 27, 2012

And What About Them Thunders?!?

When I was a much younger man, naming all the professional teams whose name did not end in "S" was a manageable trivia question. Both "Sox" and the Jazz were on the short list, and I forget the rest.

Now, who knows? But I wonder if the Heat-Thunder final was the first No-S championship in a major professional sport?

GOOD POINT: myiq2xu asks "Are you sure the press corpse heard him correctly?"

SPOILER ALERT: The Red Sox never met the White Sox in the World Series, obviously. In the NBA, the Jazz and the Magic never met in the Finals. In the NHL, the Stanley Cup was contested in int amateur days by various matchips of clubs and universities, but in the NHL the Avalanche haven't met the Lightning. And the NFL Super Bowl list offers nothing.

Yeah. Too bad Tottenham Hot Spur v. Arsenal have never been in a FA Cup final. Only semi-finals. But then Arenal are known as the Gunners and that would disqualify even if they ever did meet in a final.

I will be pedantic, as Tottenham were my Prem team while the Southampton Saints were in lower divisions these past few years (Saints are back in the top flight now!). The name of that proper North London Club is the Tottenham Hotspur-- that is the Club's name. When refering to the Club's players on the pitch (plural players), they are the Spurs that day. Simple really. There's a less clear analogy to the fraudulent North London pea shooters club, but no need to go into that.

That sound clip a few years ago flubbing an answer after stating loudly that he was a Chicago White Sox fan really outed our President as a poseur. How could a fan not be able to name a single player of his favorite team--past or present? I'll forgive the Cominskey park flub. That little sound bite proved to me the MarkO thesis--he's not that smart. LUN at 1:28

As a Boston fan, I'm glad my teams have plural names. Altho you can say Thomas is/was a Bruin or KG is a Celt but it's awkward to say Pedroia is a Sox... my brain wants to say he's a 'Sock' altho ick you just can't do that.

Shouldn't LeBron and the Miami team promptly change their name to Heats, to accord with the president's wishes, however unwitting? Hasn't he shown us via his revelatory oratory what the team name actually should be?